A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • Published: 6 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448129645
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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9 Sep 2025
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18 Jul 2016
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1 Jul 2000
Hardback
26 Aug 2025
EBook
6 Dec 2012
EBook
1 Jul 2000
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17 Mar 2022
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13 Jan 2022
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18 May 2011
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6 Jun 2006
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6 Apr 1993
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30 Jun 1977
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20 Nov 2013
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29 Nov 1991
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A highly autobiographical tale of the growth of a young man's mind, and his striving for independence.

Discover James Joyce's impressionistic portrait of a young man finding his artistic voice in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, reissued to coincide with 100 years since the first publication of his epic masterpiece, Ulysses

EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER; WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY DR DIETER FUCHS AND JOSEPH O'CONNOR

Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion transforming from supports into shackles; until the young man devotes himself to the celebration of beauty, and reaches for independence and the life of an artist.
  • Published: 6 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448129645
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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Praise for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce's depiction of the early Dublin life of Stephen Dedalus towers over modern literature, providing a stylistic blueprint and creative touchstone for artists young and old

Guardian

It's damn well written

Ezra Pound

James Joyce is my favourite novelist...Once I had read [this] I knew that I could never create anything that even came close to Joyce's magic

James Patterson, Sunday Express

There is nothing more vivid or beautiful in all Joyce's writing. It has the searing clarity of truth...but is rich with myth and symbol

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